Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Ezekiel 5:7
Multiplied — In idols, superstitions, and wickedness. Neither — You have exceeded them in superstition and idolatry, and fallen short of them in moral virtues.
Multiplied — In idols, superstitions, and wickedness. Neither — You have exceeded them in superstition and idolatry, and fallen short of them in moral virtues.
BECAUSE YE MULTIPLIED - Some prefer: Because ye have raged tumultuously.” NEITHER HAVE DONE ACCORDING TO THE JUDGMENTS - (or, ordinances) of the nations The reproach is that the Israelites have not e...
Ezekiel 5:1. The sharp knife is the symbol of the king of Babylon. (See Isaiah 7:20 .) He was God's instrument in the execution of His wrath; the people are represented by the hair. The third part of...
EXPLANATION OF THE SYMBOLS. By the four preceding symbolical actions the doom has been made too terribly clear: the reason for it is now given. Jerusalem is the centre of the world, conspicuous alike...
MULTIPLIED. rebelled. STATUTES. See notes on Genesis 26:5.Deuteronomy 4:1. NEITHER HAVE KEPT. and have not kept. NEITHER HAVE DONE, &c.: or, "and according to the statutes of the nations which are r...
Second Section. Ch. Ezekiel 3:22 to Ezekiel 7:27 The second section of the Book contains these parts: (1) Ch. Ezekiel 3:22-27. A preface in which the prophet is commanded to confine himself to his o...
Explanation of the four preceding symbols Jerusalem, set in the midst of the nations and favoured of God above them all, has even exceeded them in wickedness (Ezekiel 5:5). Therefore God's judgments...
Because she has surpassed the nations in evil, her chastisements shall be without example in severity. _Because ye multiplied_ R.V. _because ye are turbulent_. Both renderings assume an otherwise unkn...
YE MULTIPLIED—NEITHER HAVE DONE ACCORDING TO THE JUDGMENTS OF THE NATIONS— _Ye have sinned—but have done after the manners of the heathen._ Houbigant. See ch. Ezekiel 11:12. God here calls the law of...
B. The First Threat 5:7-10 TRANSLATION (7) Therefore, thus says the Lord GOD: Because you are more tumultuous than the nations which are round about you in My statutes you have not walked, and My jud...
Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because ye multiplied more than the nations that are round about you, and have not walked in my statutes, neither have kept my judgments, neither have done accordin...
5:7 ordinances, (c-32) Or 'judgments;' so ch. 11.12; 'manner' in 2 Kings 17:26 ,2 Kings 17:33 . statutes, (d-27) _ choq_ , as Exodus 12:24 ....
MULTIPLIED] RV 'are turbulent.' NEITHER.. MY JUDGMENTS.. THE JUDGMENTS (RV 'ordinances') OF THE NATIONS] Israel had been worse than the heathen, who had at least been faithful to their own gods: see J...
SYMBOLIC ACTIONS REPRESENTING JERUSALEM'S SIEGE AND CAPTIVITY Ezekiel is commanded to perform four remarkable actions setting forth the coming siege withits hardships, and the approaching captivity wi...
EZEKIEL: ‘THEY SHALL KNOW THAT I AM GOD’ THE *SIN OF JUDAH AND THE JUDGEMENT OF GOD EZEKIEL CHAPTER S 1 TO 24 _IAN MACKERVOY_ CHAPTER 5 EZEKIEL CUTS AND DIVIDES HIS HAIR – EZEKIEL 5:1-4 V1 ‘
BECAUSE YE MULTIPLIED. — Rather, _Because ye have raged,_ as the same word is translated in Psalms 2:1, and as its meaning is given in the lexicons. The meaning is, because they had shown more self-wi...
לָכֵ֞ן כֹּֽה ־אָמַ֣ר ׀ אֲדֹנָ֣י יְהוִ֗ה יַ֤עַן...
THE END FORETOLD Ezekiel 4:1 - Ezekiel 7:1 WITH the fourth chapter we enter on the exposition of the first great division of Ezekiel's prophecies. The chaps, 4-24, cover a period of about four and a...
In this chapter we have the description of the last of the four signs. The prophet was commanded to take a sword, sharpened as a barber's razor, and therewith to cut off his hair and his beard. The ha...
Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because ye (f) multiplied more than the nations that [are] around you, [and] have not walked in my statutes, neither have kept my judgments, neither have done accord...
_Surpassed. in numbers, (Symmachus) or rather in wickedness. (Chaldean) (Calmet) --- Septuagint, "because you have been incited by the," &c. (Haydock) --- Judgments. You have been less attached to my...
How often the Lord complains of his people in the Old Testament, that in their sins, they were more stupid and senseless than the idolatrous nations around them. Never was it known, that heathens chan...
This verse is variously expounded on account of the word המנכם _, hemenekem: _for some read it jointly in one context, as if through being multiplied they did not worship God; as if he meant that they...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 5 AND 6. In the revelation given to Ezekiel Jerusalem is taken, and its population almost entirely destroyed. The dispersed remnant are pursued by the sword,...
THEREFORE THUS SAITH THE LORD GOD,.... Having observed their sins, and which are still enlarged upon, the Lord proceeds to denounce his judgments against them: BECAUSE YE MULTIPLIED MORE THAN THE NAT...
Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because ye multiplied more than the nations that [are] round about you, [and] have not walked in my statutes, neither have kept my judgments, neither have done accor...
_Therefore, because ye multiplied more than the nations_ Their multiplying, in the common sense of the word, was a blessing promised to them, and could not be alleged against them as a crime; therefor...
THE INTERPRETATION OF THE SIGN...
Therefore, thus saith the Lord God, Because ye multiplied more than the nations that are round about you, raving and raging in their transgressions of His holy will, AND HAVE NOT WALKED IN MY STATUTES...
5-17 The sentence passed upon Jerusalem is very dreadful, the manner of expression makes it still more so. Who is able to stand in God's sight when he is angry? Those who live and die impenitent, wil...
YE MULTIPLIED: there is some difficulty in assigning what it is they multiplied in, either numbers of people, benefits received from God, luxury, pride, tumultuousness, with increase of your riches; o...
Ezekiel 5:7 says H559 (H8804) Lord H136 GOD H3069 multiplied H1995 (H8800) nations H1471 around H5439 walked...
‘Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh, “Because you are more turbulent than the nations which are round about you, and have not walked in my statutes nor have kept my ordinances, nor have done after th...
CONTENTS: Sign of the sharp knife. Famine, pestilence and the sword impending. CHARACTERS: God, Ezekiel. CONCLUSION: When nations (or persons) are made great, it is with design that they may do good...
Ezekiel 5:1. _Son of man, take thee a sharp knife a barber's razor._ Clip thy hair, and shave thy beard. Then divide and subdivide the hair into twenty four parts, and take eight parts, precisely the...
EZEKIEL—NOTE ON EZEKIEL 5:5 These verses comment on Ezekiel’s dramatic presentation of prophecy (Ezekiel 4:1)....
_The last methods of punishment symbolised and interpreted_ (chap. Ezekiel 5:1) EXEGETICAL NOTES.—The requirements made of Ezekiel still proceed in his house. Already he has been a sign that Jerusalem...
EXPOSITION EZEKIEL 5:1 TAKE THEE A BARBER'S RAZOR, etc. The series of symbolic acts is carried further. Recollections of Isaiah and Leviticus mingle strangely in the prophet's mind. The former had ma...
CHAPTER 5-6. THE VISION OF THE SHORN HAIR AND ITS FORESHADOWING DESOLATIONS. Ezekiel 5:1. _And thou, son of man, take thee a sharp sword; a barber's razor shalt thou take to thee, and cause it to pa...
Now the fourth thing that he uses as an illustration. Take a sharp knife, sharpen it like a barber's razor, and cause it to pass upon your head and upon your beard (Ezekiel 5:1). Shave your head and...
2 Chronicles 33:9; 2 Kings 21:9; Ezekiel 16:47; Ezekiel 16:48;...